User Stories I was reading about SCRUM or Scrum last night. I would love to get a chance to work on a project using Agile development methods. The collaboration aspect is appealing as is the idea of getting usable code working quickly seems like a great idea and…
Continue readingTaking on a big project alone is tricky. I can spend an hour or two per night working on the train game and it takes me a week to make any real progress. I also have spent a few weekend days working all day but that’s because I’m…
Continue readingI want to copy a directory on my flash drive to my hard drive. Here is what happens every time: Microsoft, please stop asking me if I want to copy the files. I do want to copy them. I thought it was clear when I answered that I…
Continue readingI thought that I’d write a little about a scheme I use to avoid constant path finding work in the train game. First, a status report. Coupling and decoupling are working. I had a problem with decoupling where the orientation of the “train” when a new string of…
Continue readingWhat is the best way to detect that I have reached a waypoint and possible passed it? I currently manage the waypoints in a way that works well when the train stops at one. The train constantly adjusts it’s deceleration to make it stop at the right spot…
Continue readingI managed to change the one global train object into a list. I had two trains running for a moment and it was cool. This led to all kinds of other headaches. The drawing code is crappy and needs to be more modular. There is also no good…
Continue readingI was working last night on changing the waypoint activities that can be specified by the player. I’ll start saying player instead of user because it sounds more fun. I finished some work on the A.I of the trains. They can now detect when they are sitting on…
Continue readingI was having trouble finding a path. Well, I was actually having trouble programming the path finding algorithm for the railroad game. I’ve never written something like this and what I threw together originally was just wrong. There are a few requirements that exist in this game that…
Continue readingI’ve decided to add file IO to my railroad game program. As always, every thing I do requires some new way to look at things. MFC provides serialization and I’m using MFC at the moment. The program only uses it for the user interface until now. Serialization is…
Continue readingThe Microsoft Foundation Classes are fairly useful. I don’t have experience with any other framework for comparison but MFC it better than writing all of the message handling code by hand. The problem with MFC is that they give you plenty of rope to hang yourself. I’m adding…
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